- In 2000, with his partners Adhemar Oliveira, Patricia Durães and Renata de Almeida, he opened the distribution company Mais Filmes, specialized in authorial cinema.
- In 1974, he ran the Cinema Department at the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) and began programming exhibitions and movie series.
- Graduated from the Politics and Sociology School in São Paulo.
- Family emigrated to Brazil from Syria when he was 8 years old.
- In 2010 he received the Ordem do Mérito Cultural.
- Started his career in 1969 as a journalist and later cinema critic at the Diários Associados newspaper.
- Due to a problem with the military dictatorship in Brazil he adopted the pseudonym Cakoff.
- In 1977 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) he created the 1st São Paulo International Film Festival.
- He wrote the books Gabriel Figueroa O Mestre do Olhar, interviewing the Mexican cinematographer; We Still Have Time, telling travelling cinema chronicles; Cinema Without an Ending, telling the stories of the festivals 30 years and Manoel de Oliveira, a interview with the Portuguese master.
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